What makes a meeting worthwhile?
While we know deep down that meetings are an essential part of a good work life, we often shy away from the task of producing a worthwhile meeting. At a distance, meetings can look quite similar: they are just two or more people coming together to discuss something.
But when you look more closely, each meeting looks different: What was the purpose of this meeting? Who was in attendance today, and why? What did each person expect from the meeting? What were the individual experiences of the attendees during the meeting? What changed as a result of holding the meeting?
Paying attention to these details may feel daunting or unnecessary at first, but the payoff is powerful. When it comes to doing good work, a sizable amount of our progress depends on our workplace relationships. It is in our meetings that our relationships are tested.
The goal of this course is to transform the way you use meetings to engage meaningfully with colleagues and produce excellent work.
In this interactive course, you will be guided through a series of activities to produce a personalized plan for skillfully running meetings. We will examine your particular context to discover how to get the results you’re after. You’ll benefit from new perspectives and insights offered by your classmates.
As you move through the course, you will be producing a focused and personalized vision, goal, plan, and action steps to make meetings work for you. At the conclusion of the course, you’ll have a personalized how-to guide for transforming your meetings into rewarding and productive meetings for everyone involved.
Course Outcomes
At the end of this course, you’ll be able to:
- identify and turn around underperforming meetings within your work areas.
- leverage the power of teamwork and collaboration through changing your approach to meetings.
- understand precisely what work is needed to run powerful meetings.
- design and run experiments to continue refining your meetings.
- identify and practice the simple habits that lead to strong meetings.
- streamline your work week by minimizing unproductive meetings.
- become a role model within your organization for using meeting time wisely.
